Bibcode
Erwin, Peter; Gutiérrez, L.; Beckman, J. E.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 744, Issue 1, article id. L11 (2012).
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2012
Citations
34
Refereed citations
32
Description
We report evidence for a striking difference between S0 galaxies in the
local field and the Virgo Cluster. While field S0 galaxies have disks
whose surface-brightness profiles are roughly equally divided between
the three main types (Types I, II, and III: single-exponential,
truncated, and antitruncated), Virgo S0s appear to be entirely lacking
in disk truncations. More specifically, the fraction of truncations in
S0 galaxies with MB < -17 is 28+7
- 6% for the field versus 0+4 -
0% for the Virgo Cluster galaxies; the difference is significant
at the 99.7% level. The discrepancy is made up almost entirely by Type I
profiles, which are almost twice as frequent in the Virgo Cluster as
they are in the field. This suggests that S0 formation may be driven by
different processes in cluster and field environments, and that
outer-disk effects can be useful tests of S0 formation models.
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